Biden, Senate Republicans hold lengthy meeting on coronavirus relief bill Erica Werner, Jeff Stein, Seung Min Kim
Republican senators held productive meeting with Biden, but no deal yet
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A group of Senate Republicans held a nearly two-hour meeting with President Biden on Monday night to discuss coronavirus relief legislation, emerging to sound upbeat notes about continuing to work together but with no deal in hand.
Biden has proposed a $1.9 trillion relief package that Democratic leaders want to move quickly through Congress. The 10-member GOP group led by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) countered with a much narrower $618 billion proposal, and appealed to Biden to make good on his campaign promises to seek bipartisan unity.
Biden to meet with Senate Republicans offering covid relief counter-proposal Erica Werner, Jeff Stein, Seung Min Kim
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Replay Video UP NEXT President Biden intends to meet on Monday with 10 GOP senators who are calling on him to make a bipartisan deal instead of forging ahead with a party-line vote on his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan. The group announced plans Sunday to release an approximately $600 billion coronavirus relief package as a counter-proposal to Biden’s much larger plan, posing a test for the new president who campaigned on promises to unify Congress and the country.